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What goes on in the darkest corners of democracy? Find out in this brilliant political satire sure to delight fans of State of Play and The State Within. This spellbinding dissection of naked ambition, greed and rampant hypocrisy stars Sir Ian Richardson (Bleak House), Susannah Harker (Pride and Prejudice) and a who's-who of British stars. A superb political thriller. Extras include commentary from Richardson and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House). 1 hours on 3 Discs. SDH.

. Episode ListEpisode 1 Francis Urquhart is the Conservative Party Chief Whip who keeps the party's Members of Parliament in line. The party has selected a new leader, Henry Collingridge, and at the general election the government is returned with a reduced majority. Urquhart expects his proper reward - a senior Cabinet post - but is shocked when the Prime Minister tells him he's to stay where he is. Urquhart decides to exact his revenge. Using an ambitious young journalist, Mattie Storin, he plants rumors of dissension in party.

Episode 2 Francis Urqhart continues his surreptitious campaign to force Prime Minister Henry Collingridge's resignation. After the tabloids spend the summer excoriating the PM's brother Charles, it's time for the fall party conference in Brighton. There, Urqhart ensures that journalist Matty Storin gets the results of an internal party poll showing they have fallen 30 points behind Labour. He also ensures those numbers make it to print. When the PM asks Urqhart's advice on who is out to get him, he lays the blame at the feet of Party chairman Lord Billsborough.

Episode 3 The Prime Minister resigns and the race is to replace him. Environment Minister Michael Samuels and Foreign Minister Patrick Woolton are the apparent front-runners, though the Chronicle newspaper comes out publicly in support of Urquhart. At his wife's encouragement, Urquhart seduces journalist Mattie Storin but doesn't realize she recorded their conversation. She traces Charles Collingridge to the rehab center and begins to doubt that he was the engineer of the scandal.